Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neither these arrangements nor the high ideals of scouting were any burden on the 25,000 monkeys who swarmed over the encampment, riding bicycles, darting from behind every park bush to the terror of automobile drivers. At 17th Street & Constitution Avenue were encamped about 400 foreign Scouts, troops from Chile and Poland, a Philippine Scout who had flown from Manila, British Columbians who had bicycled 3,500 miles, two Venezuelans who had tramped for 30 months through jungles covering the entire distance to Washington on foot. About 1,000 U. S. Scouts were to sail for a world jamboree...
...decided immediately to apply a plan of restoration, including defense of the Bank of France's reserves without recourse to exchange control, implacable war against speculation, a strictly balanced budget for 1937, to be obtained through appropriate fiscal measures and an important reduction in the Treasury's burden...
...enlarged abnormally and corroded upon Harvard's "educational standards." It further showed that two out of three had attended the emporiums mainly because of laziness. The University was partly blamed for the evil through badly-organized courses and the loss co contact between student and instructor owing to the burden of research. The only official action to date has been the forbidding of holders of honorary or stipendiary rewards to aid the bureaus without written consent...
...Trinity" of History, Government, and Economics requires that a History concentrator take Government 1 and Economics A, in addition to History 1. That is necessary, for the fields are so closely allied that each one requires an understanding of the other two. Any other arrangement throws too great a burden on the tutors...
Author Hendrick was no petty popularizer, rushing into print to meet a political opportunity or beat the Liberty Bell. Neither New Dealers nor Republicans could make resounding political copy of his book, but New Dealers are sure to like it better. The burden of Mr. Hendrick's epic song is: Fear not. The Constitution has survived much worse storms than this one, is not really so much a bulwark as a life-raft-"a living and fluid instrument, built not for an age, but for all time, responsive to the needs of a changing world." He reminds gloomy headshakers...